CVE-2025-41733 (GCVE-0-2025-41733)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-18 10:17 – Updated: 2025-11-18 21:17
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Summary
The commissioning wizard on the affected devices does not validate if the device is already initialized. An unauthenticated remote attacker can construct POST requests to set root credentials.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
METZ CONNECT Energy-Controlling EWIO2-M Affected: 0.0.0 , < 2.2.0 (semver)
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Credits
Noam Moshe from Claroty Team82 Tomer Goldschmidt from Claroty Team82
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